PSA - If your Steam Deck or Steam on Linux has started failing to download or launch Proton games, you may have caught a bad config from Valve's servers.
We believe the problem is fixed now, but you need to delete a cache file locally (~/.steam/steam/userdata/<steamid>/config/compat.vdf where <steamid> is your id).
@dotstdy@riesi it's also waiting to unmount filesystems that are no longer available with the vpn down .. yeah I should look for the configs and turn all those timeouts way down rather than complaining :)
Also I don't reboot quite often enough for it to be really annoying. Just time to get up and stretch out.
I see some people mention "it passed QA checks" in reference to the xv backdoor .. You have no idea how the sausage is made, do you?
Even if someone casually looked at the particular commit (I doubt anyone did), that one line edit in the build script looks just like any od the other autotools garbage.
@TTimo Yeah, as one that edited configure scripts generated by autotools from time to time (because they wouldn't regenerate again) I can confirm, there's wild stuff in there, most of it unreadable unless you seriously sit down to deobfuscate it.
Ouch, so frustrating. Diagnosing and fixing github over https authentication problems is the worst. Typically after you clone a public repo and it'll never let you use your write access for push afterwards.
Valve is seeing an increasing number of bug reports for issues caused by Canonical's repackaging of the Steam client through snap.
The best way to install Steam on Debian and derivative operating systems is to follow the instructions at http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ and use the official .deb
We are not involved with the snap repackaging. It has a lot of issues.
If you don't want the .deb, please at least consider the flatpak version.
@TTimo This has affected people internally too. I had to spend far too long trying to figure out why SteamVR was not working for someone, turns out they were using the Snap which is the default on the store + apt!
Ubuntu forwarding apt -> snap for certain package names is prime what-the-fuck-ery and actively hostile design.
@TTimo btw I should say "howdy" too, haha. (oh and I took a quick look at your GitHub.) personally I played Doom 3 and Half-Life both within first month of when they came out. there was a period of like a month where I was ranked in the top 1% of CS players in the world too. lately in my "free" time I'm building an edu-game about dire/urgent climate and democracy dangers, with a goal of motivating more to take concrete and sustained actions. anyway, my related nerd creds haha
Hot take: yes, google is evil but imo the whole thing about slowing down FireFox is so obvious and dumb that I can't assume it's malicious or intentional.